It's A Crazy, Crazy Life!!

Our little old neighbor, Herman is gone to hospice now and won't be coming out. The cancer in his Femur moved into his spine. He rose from a chair and 3 vertebrae fractured! He fell to the floor in pain- nearly had a heart attack trying to crawl to the phone. Jay & I were both at work when this happened so there was nobody here to help him. Makes me feel so sad... Anyway, it's just a matter of time now... We will miss him!

Yesterday, I talked with the neighbor lady who said she & her husband had been robbed this week! During the night, a bandit came and stole the trailer they have for the 4-wheeler. He also went into her mother's trailer, stood over her menacingly and asked if she was afraid. She said, "I'm terrified" to which he replied, "Good- that's what I'm goin' for". He didn't do anything to her, but it's still scary. We decided to lock our vehicles at night and all the doors to our house... Last night at 1:30, we heard a blood-curdling cry coming from our daughter's room. She was yelling, "They're scratching me!" We thought she was just dreaming, but upon getting to the door of her room, we saw there were two strange dogs laying on her bed!!! Jay grabbed one, I grabbed the other and we put them outside- "Shooo- go HOME!" We calmed our daughter down and went back to bed. 20 minutes later she was screaming again. We rushed to her room to find the same 2 dogs laying on her bed! They had scratched her arm a little. Then we figured out they were coming in the cat door. (A raunchy old tomcat broke the flap off the door trying to get at our cat food, so it's just an open hole in the door now, but very small.) We barricaded the door and went back to bed. All was quiet until 4:30 when our poor little girl came crying to our bedroom door saying, "The puppies are baaaaaack". Sure enough, one was in again. Jay put it out. We put our daughter in the top bunk with her sister and went to bed. When I woke the kids up this morning, lo and behold, the little dog was STILL in our house!!! When I got off work this afternoon we found her owner who lives a mile away. He was glad to see his little Jasmine- she and the other dog ran away during a storm last weekend. He was very thankful. :o) Happy to help. If I had a $ for every lost pet I've returned, I'd be RICH!

Needless to say, I'm VERY tired!! Glad tomorrow is Friday. Been working hard all week. Tuesday is my last day of training. Jay gets up early and goes to bed early. We are trying to roll with the changes to our lifestyle, but I'm really tired of not getting to see my man! My foot is better. :o) When I got out of bed the past 2 days- no longer feels like stepping on shards of glass. I'm supposed to sub an aerobics class Monday- first since the injury. Hope it goes well.

And now a disclaimer for the male blog friends who dropped off the face of the earth. It's safe to visit and comment here. I wrote to one guy recently asking how he was doing and saying I hoped I hadn't offended him in some way. Got a message back saying, "Sorry, but I'm busy and not in the habit of corresponding with married women- especially when I don't really even know them". Ouch- that was AWKWARD! I thought this guy & I were pals, then he got all wierd on me!! So that's life, I guess, but now I'm paranoid. I'm friendly, but I'm NOT a flirt looking for an affair. I was a tomboy growing up- it's still not out of my system. I believe you can be married and still have friends of the opposite sex without being inappropriate. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I feel...